It’s a little early but I thought I’d make a thread specifically for announcements! Feel free to post your announcement or ask questions or brainstorm ideas 💡 here!
How did or will you share the news with your SO, family, and friends? If you are choosing to share your announcement on social media, how do you plan on doing that and when?
Stolen parts from Feb BMB
Re: Pregnancy announcement
We have told immediate family, close friends, and I told my team at work. A lot of people say not to tell people so early, but I did this before and I’m glad I did. My support system going through my MC was phenomenal! So I plan to tell more people once we have our first ultrasound, but we aren’t actually announcing it until October. We have ideas, but nothing set in stone yet.
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Me 34 DH 34
PCOS
Baby number 2 due 4/11/20
Coincidentally I have family pictures scheduled the first week of October so I will work in some announcement photos. We always buy an announcement onesie with our last name and due date so that will be worked in as well. I think we will use it for holiday cards and announce beyond family that way.
Natural BFP Feb 2017. DD born Oct. 2017
Natural BFP Aug. 2019, EDD April 2020
@mercury94 and @Kathryn0903 those tshirts are the cutest! they make such fun announcements, especially cos the LOs are involved.
@emalue when is your edd? november sounds like a good plan as well. is this your first?
@cicchettimama00 - I'm so sorry about your loss. I hope everything is as uneventful as possible this time around I have a silly question: when you say 12-13 weeks, it's counted from the LMP right? Like your EDD calculation. Or is it from the date of ovulation. Sorry this always confuses me, i was doing everything from LMP, however DH keeps telling me that's not entirely accurate, and i agree with him, but i tell him thats how the clinic calculates it. Am i wrong?
@courtneya1620 - Sorry for your loss! I'm excited everything is looking good right now with this pregnancy. best wishes for a smooth pregnancy. Keep us posted on your announcement ideas
@coaster102516 - the announcement photos and holiday cards sound like a great idea. Like you, i wanted to wait for the first ultrasound appointment at 7 weeks and then announce to close family. I'm not sure when we want to tell friends, i was thinking after the first tri. It's been getting tough to sit out all these happy hours
I'll probably announce officially sometime this month. I'd just like to get through DD1's birthday first. For social media, I'm thinking of putting my girls in their Big Sister and Little Sister shirts, but mark out little and replace with big and put "in training" below it, with a caption that says "fixed it." Or something. Idk. I'm sleep deprived.
Edited: We just dont know the timing. Definitely sometime after the 1st 7 week ultrasound.
BFP 4/27/2017 - EDD 12/25/2017 - DD born 12/15/2017
What on Earth to do with #4?
MMC 01/26/12
MC 12/25/12, D&C 01/05/13
BFP 03/05/13, EDD 11/12/13. HB 175 @ 9w2d. Its a Girl!
Madeline Lorraine H. Born 11/12/13 @9:10pm, 7lb6oz
DX with EA/TEF Type C & Tracheomalaysia
MC @ 13wks 01/15/15
Clint Kiszonas H. Born 11/21/16 @10:38pm, 9lb11oz
BFP 1/11/18, EDD 9/21/18
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Me 34 DH 34
PCOS
Baby number 2 due 4/11/20
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Me 34 DH 34
PCOS
Baby number 2 due 4/11/20
Not sure how we will do a social media announcement but have been looking at a couple ideas one I was thinking of is having a friend take photos with like cotton candy on a stick with both pink and blue or something more fall theme pumpkins or something. This is our third and final baby so want to do something fun.
Okay, okay, I am obsessed with Halloween, so I am already playing with a lot of ideas to do a Halloween themed announcement.
I told my husband today by putting my DD and DS in sibling shirts, and DH noticed my youngest’s first because it said “promoted to big brother.”
My In-laws will be visiting next week, so we will tell them in person, and then probably send a personal announcement to our other close relatives.
I have a scheduled family photo shoot, and now I think I’m going to turn it into a birth announcement photo shoot with all of us in costumes, and then buy some of those super cute monster booties from Carter’s.
Side note, if someone is looking for ideas, I did a Hocus Pocus reveal to my DH last pregnancy and printed out something from Pinterest that says “Winnie, I smell... a child” and then got a mini cupcake with Halloween frosting.
Otherwise I’ve ordered all the announcement stuff! We’ll probably announce sooner than most here are comfortable with at 6-8 weeks.
We’re going to tell the kids very soon. It’s going to slip by casual conversation at home, so I want to do something special first. We ordered these shirts to surprise them with.
We’ll probably tell my Fiancé’s parents/family soon after the kids. I ordered these super cute mugs with their names on the backside.
The rest I’m not sure about timing yet. I ordered this one for my mom. Once she knows, everyone will know soon thereafter because she’s a gossip. My brother’s wedding is 9/7 and I’m going back and forth on whether to say something first or after. My family unfortunately are BIG drinkers and are super pushy. I don’t want it outed AT his wedding.
The last one will be our online announcement to flaunt our nerdery. We’ll do a photo prop setup with a wand and a lightsaber.
Anyone else deciding to announce earlier than 12-13 weeks?
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Me 34 DH 34
PCOS
Baby number 2 due 4/11/20
For social media/everyone else, I'm getting this shirt made and will take a pic of DS wearing it next to a pumpkin that I'll carve a heart out of and put a smaller pumpkin inside. I'll be about 14 weeks. I love Halloween so I'm excited about it
Also, since DS was a June baby and I hit the 2nd trimester right around Christmas, this was our announcement for him.
ETA - I have no idea how to spoiler here lol
W born September 2020
#3 due November 2022
@mflowers929 those announcements are just so cute!
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Me 34 DH 34
PCOS
Baby number 2 due 4/11/20
Me: 35 DH: 34
Married: April 2014
DS born 9/16
TTC #2 since December 2018
BFP 8/19 MMC 10/19
BFP 5/20 MC 6/20
I told DH with a book of dad jokes and an expectant father book. He opened the dad jokes first and didn’t understand why until he opened the other. 😂 He wanted to tell parents right away, so we FaceTimed together that same night. I also called my sister a few days later. I didn’t want her to hear anything suspicious from a parent, but since she’s TTC, I wanted to be sensitive to the timing.
After our first U/S at 9 weeks, I shared the news with a few cousins in person, and I just told my aunt yesterday. I gave DH permission to tell some of his close friends, since he doesn’t have as many family members to tell. I might tell some friends this weekend at a birthday party...
Like others have mentioned, so far our sharing has been based on who we want in our support network. I am waiting to tell my work until our new (more generous) parental leave plan is approved (currently thinking of wearing a t-shirt on Halloween that announces it for me). We will probably wait until Thanksgiving or Christmas for a social announcement, which may or may not include the sex.
For those of you with large families or friend groups, how you are deciding who you will tell personally v. who you will let find out from a social?